But without it, it is hard to imagine the patient ever rising from the sick-bed.

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Jesse Helms , R-North Carolina, got out of a sick bed to appear with Elizabeth Dole.

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He left his sick bed to travel to the Commons in June to support the government in the narrow vote on the 42-day detention bill.

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So Russian folk-wisdom advises, and so Boris Yeltsin has been doing in the days since he rose from his sick bed to resume a semblance of work.

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